Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, such activity is not done without planning and organization, and Jack Kennedy has the smoothest-running, widest-ranging, most efficient personal organization in the Democratic Party today. It has men, money and brains; his opponents claim it is the most savvy and hard-nosed group put together in U.S. politics since Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell swept Taft out of the G.O.P. race...
...cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage. She rushed out, saw Barbara lying on the garage floor. "Then Dr. Finch came rushing up to me. He grabbed my head and pushed it against the wall several times, as hard as he could." At gunpoint, Marie Lidholm was forced into the back seat of Barbara Finch's car; the doctor eased his wife into the front. Before Finch could start the car, Barbara leaped out, and Finch ran after her. Marie hurried into the house to telephone the police...
...hard-driving young leaders have rushed Phoenix and Arizona into a glittering new era, but they well know that they have not licked all its serious problems. For one thing, the sense of unlim ited expansion space is deceptive: the U.S. and the state government own an amazing 86% of it. In the limited area left, fast and loose land speculators have driven up prices; some desolate North Arizona acres shot up from $150 to $1,000 in the last year...
...supplying fuel, guarding against floods, and urging villagers to report on anyone suspected of being a Communist or a rebel. Furthermore, through a kind of super PX that just grew and grew in the past year, the army also runs a financial empire that even U Nu would find hard to dislodge. Among its activities: a bookshop, bank, import-export bureau, bus company, electrical-appliance outlets, a fuel-supply firm, a department store, a shipping line, the control of nearly all fisheries, as well as plans to sell everything from shoes to paint to coke...
During weeks of hot and heavy campaigning, all eyes in India were on Kerala, a hard-up state whose 16 million inhabitants make it as populous as Canada. The question was whether Kerala, which voted Communist in 1957 and endured 28 months of chaotic Red rule, would vote Communist again. After all, the Reds had not been thrown out at the polls but removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian...